LABORATORY SERIES. No.07. Installation view of Roxy Paine’s Control Room at Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St, 2013. Steel, wood, automotive paint, glass, 12′ 5″ x 18′ 2 3/8″ x 13′ 7.” Part power plant, part space-race agency, part recording studio, Control Room’s dashboard is an index of different operating and monitoring devices. It is timeless, devoid of a human operator and frozen as a diorama in the gallery space. Photo Courtesy of Joseph Rynkiewicz & Kavi Gupta Chicago | Berlin.
LABORATORY SERIES. No.19. Aerial image of the XB-70 Valkyrie crash site 12 miles north of Barstow, CA. Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert has been the test site and crash site for military aircrafts since the 1940s.Though the military recovers as much from the wreckage as possible, the landscape still bears evidence of these crashes. The XB-70 Valkyrie was wrecked during a photo shoot following a routine test mission in 1966. Photo Courtesy of Center for Land Use Interpretation
